# ![@Old_Samster Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1177443218.png) @Old_Samster Sami Kassab

Sami Kassab posts on X about bittensor, ai, crypto, decentralized the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  #2231 [finance](/list/finance)  20.59% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  6.86% [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  6.86% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  2.94% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  1.96% [stocks](/list/stocks)  1.96% [products](/list/products)  0.98% [events](/list/events)  0.98%

**Social topic influence**
[bittensor](/topic/bittensor) #28, [ai](/topic/ai) #6231, [crypto](/topic/crypto) #2458, [decentralized](/topic/decentralized) #119, [tao](/topic/tao) 9.8%, [bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) 8.82%, [subnet tokens](/topic/subnet-tokens) 6.86%, [the first](/topic/the-first) 4.9%, [liquidity](/topic/liquidity) 4.9%, [token](/topic/token) #195

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@opentensor](/creator/undefined) [@victor_crypto_2](/creator/undefined) [@camronmira](/creator/undefined) [@decoding_things](/creator/undefined) [@kylesamani](/creator/undefined) [@lmscientist](/creator/undefined) [@algodtrading](/creator/undefined) [@bittensor](/creator/undefined) [@targoncompute](/creator/undefined) [@unsupervisedcap](/creator/undefined) [@reppo](/creator/undefined) [@axilo](/creator/undefined) [@robustus](/creator/undefined) [@constreborn](/creator/undefined) [@barrysilbert](/creator/undefined) [@563defi](/creator/undefined) [@sportstensor](/creator/undefined) [@richhomiecon](/creator/undefined) [@oldsamster](/creator/undefined) [@diststateandme](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Bittensor (TAO)](/topic/bittensor) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum) [Coinbase Global Inc. (COIN)](/topic/coinbase) [USDC (USDC)](/topic/usdc)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"When we first met Tom his obsession with energy markets came through immediately. Seemed random but it's "actually" central to what he's building at Actual Computer. The thesis is that local inference is inevitable. Open source models are getting good enough people don't want to feed their thoughts to AI labs and demand for compute will continue to be insatiable. But the main forcing function is that chips aren't the bottleneck anymore - power is. Compute is derivative of energy and the massive data center buildout has created an energy shortage where GPUs sit idle waiting for power to come"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2014052329427771463)  2026-01-21T19:07Z 17.3K followers, 24.5K engagements


"Question: will we see a move from the cloud back to local for individuals if 1) AI coding tools start to be used to generate open source versions of cloud software products 2) anyone can easily interface with APIs to pull their data from existing services with the coding tools 3) open source models keep getting better 4) everyone has a mac mini (or a home server) quite a few investment idea here if the above is true New Essay Open-source software is heading for a golden era: written by machines funded by people. Data is moving from the cloud back to the user's disk. And people will run AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2021961696152097035)  2026-02-12T14:56Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@AlgodTrading you realize pretty much every crypto network is operating at a 'net loss' if you consider profit to be more revenue than what is being emitted for emissions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2022685499983548777)  2026-02-14T14:52Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"http://x.com/i/article/1988275505317957632 http://x.com/i/article/1988275505317957632"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1988292426243420293)  2025-11-11T17:07Z 17.3K followers, 24.3K engagements


"Theres a reasonable chance Bittensor becomes the first large-scale economically grounded training ground for AI agents ✱ Announcing The Subnet Signal Newsletter A weekly look at what's moving across @bittensor from the team behind @targoncompute Today we are discussing @Openclaw integration with @bittensor and where utilization is trending Tap in below https://t.co/Pv3ALLXIQu ✱ Announcing The Subnet Signal Newsletter A weekly look at what's moving across @bittensor from the team behind @targoncompute Today we are discussing @Openclaw integration with @bittensor and where utilization is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2022758946918863215)  2026-02-14T19:44Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Ive written about this extensively but 1) I keep growing in conviction that the dominant theme this year will be crypto x AI 2) I still believe Bittensor is the best environment for anyone serious about building at the intersection For the hackathon Im looking to fund founders who understand that in a world that continues to speed up automated systems (incentive mechanisms) that define objectives and measure outcomes actually provide a structural edge Reminder: Keep building. Think it. Pitch it. Build it. Bittensor Subnet Ideathon (Round 1) closes Feb [--]. - $18K cash prize pool - Up to 1000"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2021703515396026384)  2026-02-11T21:50Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Chutes is processing 75-100B tokens per day $5.5m annualized revenue using the last [--] days All revenue automatically buys-back the token Venice now processing [--] billion LLM tokens daily Venice now processing [--] billion LLM tokens daily"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2022428746603708438)  2026-02-13T21:52Z 17.3K followers, 22.3K engagements


"Chutes is just a project that hasnt reached profitability yet. The same way that VCs subsidize a startup early on token holders do it here. As long as you see a path to profitability its fine to invest in a pre-profitable traditional startup or crypto token. We've spent time with the Chutes team contributors and their top miners and we see a path to profitability for the subnet. Chutes team also is demonstrating the ability to close the gap between revenue and miner emissions. Right now they're covering 40%. So i disagree with what you've said but yes good to have high standards and keep"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2022787051649737102)  2026-02-14T21:36Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Were bringing back taopill starting with a newsletter featuring interviews with the builders shaping Bittensor. For the first edition we sat down with Ben James founder of 404-GEN (SN17) one of the best examples of what a model subnet looks like in practice. https://t.co/OA4XWJtG6c https://t.co/OA4XWJtG6c"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1976309800947614051)  2025-10-09T15:32Z 17.3K followers, 13.7K engagements


"TLDR on Bittensor Halving For TAO half as much TAO enters circulation meaning less can be sold. This is simply bullish For Subnet tokens with TAO liquidity tightening moves get amplified. Our view is flows are turning positive for the following reasons: (meaning bullish) https://t.co/86wr6r94wb https://t.co/86wr6r94wb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1978116841907048506)  2025-10-14T15:13Z 17.3K followers, 43.5K engagements


"How long until an agent decides to launch a Subnet to either 1) pay humans to provide it with inputs or to complete tasks its needs to improve or 2) coordinate with other agents to produce a Subnet output that they can monetize"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2017633999171010784)  2026-01-31T16:20Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Incredible how much progress is being made in decentralized training. The Covenant team just delivered a 100x improvement in weight sync over the Prime Intellect teams last major (and impressive) milestone. At @covenant_ai we made decentralized RL for LLMs as fast as centralized RL. We achieve over [---] bandwidth reduction for weight sync. Completely lossless. Here's how we did it (1/n) https://t.co/e7UeZzjZ2R At @covenant_ai we made decentralized RL for LLMs as fast as centralized RL. We achieve over [---] bandwidth reduction for weight sync. Completely lossless. Here's how we did it (1/n)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2019055853819605493)  2026-02-04T14:30Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@reppo @Axilo you sure do spend a lot of time critiquing bittensor. And the critiques aren't even good. Says alot. Good luck with your project"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2021793252878254086)  2026-02-12T03:47Z 17.3K followers, [--] engagements


"0/ A personal update i would now like the selling to stop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2019509162061988288)  2026-02-05T20:31Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Another simple idea There will always be inefficiency meaning a supply/demand mismatch Idle compute will exist just like theres excess energy during the day to support peak loads Liquid compute markets will emerge to absorb that slack and it'll be built on crypto rails the best investment ideas r often the simplest. and the simplest idea i can think of is *several orders of magnitude* more ai compute in the coming decade. long leading hyperscalers. long leading chip companies. the best investment ideas r often the simplest. and the simplest idea i can think of is *several orders of magnitude*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2021264654421340519)  2026-02-10T16:47Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The following is a glimpse of our report - read the full version here Generational opportunities often emerge from fundamental market blind spots. Today its Bittensor. Over the last two years http://x.com/i/article/1998417181432795136 http://x.com/i/article/1998417181432795136"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1998455247186821269)  2025-12-09T18:10Z 17.3K followers, 102.8K engagements


"Crunch's [-----] quants now able to seamlessly mine Synth - pretty sick They'll be competing to build the best probabilistic forecasting models across crypto assets and tokenized stocks https://t.co/xA6VZYuJH4 https://t.co/xA6VZYuJH4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2018003091623121026)  2026-02-01T16:46Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @balajis: I have never been more bullish on crypto. Because the rules-based order is collapsing and the code-based order is rising. So"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2019469495547432963)  2026-02-05T17:53Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Ive asked a lot of smart people and still havent heard a convincing explanation for why Bitcoin mining wont lose its attractiveness over time as the preferred way for energy grids and power producers to monetize excess capacity and stranded energy as the asynchronous AI compute market grows. I see this as an existential risk for bitcoin's hashrate I think the async inference (and possibly training) market is going to be massive. Real-time inference will always command a premium but asynchronous inference can be done whenever. Call it a 24-hour window. Inference jobs can run when energy is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2020171815910342957)  2026-02-07T16:24Z 17.3K followers, 12K engagements


"@robustus - hoping you could chime in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2020172434142294361)  2026-02-07T16:26Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@const_reborn also curious for your view here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2020173157131280521)  2026-02-07T16:29Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@robustus Yeah that's fair. Bitcoin would go to being the sole use case for stranded power to having competition. A little worrying since hash rate is the most important metric for bittensor and that will likely be impacted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2020193029790003678)  2026-02-07T17:48Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"RT @yubrew: no one's done a holistic analysis on the classes of exploits on openclaw's main repo. so we did the work. for rapidly changing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2021228426137378895)  2026-02-10T14:23Z 17.3K followers, [--] engagements


"me: training an AI model at home on my mac mini you: not training - sad. embarrassing actually Its time. @IOTA_SN9s Train at Home is available to all. Weve opened the floodgates - everybody can join. Become a miner and build distributed models together - all on consumer-grade hardware and without any technical ML knowledge. Come on in. Join the swarm. Your actions https://t.co/L2jJtXZ72r Its time. @IOTA_SN9s Train at Home is available to all. Weve opened the floodgates - everybody can join. Become a miner and build distributed models together - all on consumer-grade hardware and without any"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2021266592613494929)  2026-02-10T16:54Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Bittensor will win because there are so many ways to get involved beyond just holding a token and staking. It's even more obvious now as AI coding tools have made the barrier to entry way lower for people to start mining. There's basically [---] different games (subnets) you can use AI tools to build a miner for and strategize with on how to gain an edge. Most subnets are hyper competitive and reward miners using a sort of leaderboard ranking system which gamifies the whole experience. I think vibe coding + mining will end up becoming new kind of game people play and make money from."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2021607087055196633)  2026-02-11T15:27Z 17.3K followers, 17.7K engagements


"RT @BarrySilbert: Over $100 million/year up for grabs for anybody that wants to contribute and compete to generate decentralized intelligen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2021955913825894526)  2026-02-12T14:33Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"RJ has spoken Seems that I'm in a unique position as both a Venice AI and Bittensor bull. Many are falling into the trap of believing the universe of decentralized AI is limited to a single winner. -- Tokenomics -- Venice AI has a truly innovative token design. Voorhees is in the top 0.01% https://t.co/hdVFej4WEi Seems that I'm in a unique position as both a Venice AI and Bittensor bull. Many are falling into the trap of believing the universe of decentralized AI is limited to a single winner. -- Tokenomics -- Venice AI has a truly innovative token design. Voorhees is in the top 0.01%"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2022734551215464956)  2026-02-14T18:07Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"I saw the previous version of this tweet that you deleted where you said bittensor is a failing project that I should get out of. It sounds like your mind is already made up so I don't really want to put more time into answering these questions. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and concerns man and I don't want you to be frustrated about me putting my time here. At the end of the day it only impacts me. And I feel extremely confident about where I'm putting my time and energy. I think i'll be right eventually. If not then im okay with that too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2022796436602052793)  2026-02-14T22:13Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@jvb_xyz if you believe in DePIN having potential then you should believe in crypto x AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1835684533296849169)  2024-09-16T14:17Z 17K followers, [---] engagements


"Bittensor's impact is already extending beyond the AI development process A good ex is Omron (SN 2) which has made significant strides in ZK proof generation slashing proof generation time from [--] secs to under [--] in a few months outpacing EZKL's Lilith proving system by 30% Throughout our Bittensor validator journey weve come across the amazing work put up by the various Subnet teams and wanted to showcase some of the highlights of what we've seen so far. Were excited to start with one of the less-understood subnets @omron_ai. SN2 Omron is Throughout our Bittensor validator journey weve come"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1843328996270105059)  2024-10-07T16:34Z 17.1K followers, 20.4K engagements


"I know everyone's having fun in agent land right now but there's a real vibe shift happening in Bittensor (and my #1 strength is vibe reading) Bittensor sentiment on CT might be at all time lows (and yeah that's affected me a bit the past [--] months) but if you're paying attention to what's actually happening in the ecosystem and what's lined up for Q1. it would be insane for you to actually be bearish right now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1875669368022962453)  2025-01-04T22:23Z 17.2K followers, 13.5K engagements


"@gmoneyofficial tokens live you can actually earn it now https://goodalexander.com/posts/post_fiat_install/ https://goodalexander.com/posts/post_fiat_install/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1884420887392506017)  2025-01-29T01:58Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Later today will be the most significant upgrade in Bittensor's history on par with the significance of The Merge for Ethereum. Except instead of [--] years to implement the upgrade Dynamic TAO will be developed and implemented within a year. Today every subnet will receive its own fair-launched token and protocol native liquidity pool initialized with [--] Alpha (subnet token) and [--] TAO both with max supplies of 21M. This means each subnet starts with the same FDV as TAO ($8.6B) at block [--]. None of the subnets are obviously worth anywhere near that valuation yet so you're looking at massively"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1890071216645603802)  2025-02-13T16:11Z 16K followers, 43.8K engagements


"@EvanMalanga Lemme know if you end up finding out pls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1890138714191659382)  2025-02-13T20:39Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@cisterciansis I was looking at the [--] hour filter here https://taoyield.com/ https://taoyield.com/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1890566251296051435)  2025-02-15T00:58Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@563defi I don't believe the note on dilutive pressure is right This is how I think about it: When price of SN token is above its emission Alpha emission becomes [--] to prevent price impact if price is below emission there's positive price pressure like you said"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1891940099706745068)  2025-02-18T19:57Z 15.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@563defi yes exactly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1891943114354389048)  2025-02-18T20:09Z 15.2K followers, [--] engagements


"New piece that covers why we believe subnet tokens on Bittensor are undervalued We also cover how the 'sum of subnet tokens' metric is being misused and share some insight on other macro indicators TLDR: stop using FDV - its not the right metric to value subnets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1927403978343501866)  2025-05-27T16:38Z 17K followers, 36.2K engagements


"TLDR #2: We think sum of subnet tokens metric is near its bottom. Read the post here: https://www.unsupervised.capital/writing/reframing-subnet-valuation https://www.unsupervised.capital/writing/reframing-subnet-valuation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1927403980558045401)  2025-05-27T16:38Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"huge Sam and his team are killing it TAO and subnet tokens coming to every chain The floodgates are opening. TaoFi has deployed Uniswap V3 on Bittensor EVM alongside bridged USDC from Ethereum and Base powered by @Hyperlane. Starting today you can bridge swap and provide liquidity on Bittensor EVM at https://t.co/WKM5RImnt5 Here's what to know: The floodgates are opening. TaoFi has deployed Uniswap V3 on Bittensor EVM alongside bridged USDC from Ethereum and Base powered by @Hyperlane. Starting today you can bridge swap and provide liquidity on Bittensor EVM at https://t.co/WKM5RImnt5 Here's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1927565103467294810)  2025-05-28T03:18Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"The fixation on the tao weight parameter is misguided imo and not what's constraining subnet token demand at the moment. Some are saying that root's current 17% APY is siphoning capital away from subnets but this assumes there's a massive pool of sophisticated capital sitting on the sidelines calculator in hand deciding between a risk-free rate versus subnet token exposure. In reality no one at this stage is making allocation decisions based on Bittensor's internal yield dynamics. They're evaluating potential principal appreciation (TAO vs subnet token upside) Changing the tao weight won't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1929558658205069795)  2025-06-02T15:20Z 17K followers, 18.4K engagements


"There is an incentive because there have been massive opportunities to make money in this market by investing in subnets. There still are and some investors are beginning to catch on to this. The problem is that most of these firms already hold the view that TAO is going to 5x and so the risk-reward is more favorable for them to just passively hold TAO rather than hire a full time analyst to focus on dtao and risk missing out on their underlying bet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1929560552159809785)  2025-06-02T15:27Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"@0xSkol @DavFields price isn't going up because there's no structural demand for these tokens atm. simple"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1936148577673265266)  2025-06-20T19:46Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@Becca_Bratcher_ @ForbesCrypto @YumaGroup @BitMindAI @sportstensor @BetterTherapyAI @bittensor_ Enjoyable read nice one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1965810617014710738)  2025-09-10T16:12Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements


"http://x.com/i/article/1970545726762479616 http://x.com/i/article/1970545726762479616"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1970546473604387083)  2025-09-23T17:51Z 17.1K followers, 34.4K engagements


"In [--] months Ridges used an open incentivized tournament to produce the top open-source coding agent. It outperforms all open-source agentic systems on SWE-Bench Beats closed models from billion-dollar labs Was done with $0 VC funding https://t.co/FDcaOQedQt https://t.co/FDcaOQedQt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1970547291443601586)  2025-09-23T17:54Z 17K followers, 56.6K engagements


"I think Grass is the first DePIN/DeAI project thats really nailed product-market fit. And the project looks more like a traditional startup than a crypto network. Normally crypto networks try to decentralize both sides where anyone can provide resources and anyone can use them. With Grass the supply side is wide open and permissionless but the demand side isn't. The team decides how to productize and monetize what the network produces. And that makes it feel less like a protocol and more like a startup that has a decentralized backend. But that's what's working. Many other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1973831861844766761)  2025-10-02T19:26Z 17.1K followers, 12.5K engagements


"the amount of funds/people in my dms asking to talk about Bittensor or for my top [--] subnets is stupid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1978215149270962568)  2025-10-14T21:43Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@richhomiecon @Jason lemme call you @jason"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1978216215634977053)  2025-10-14T21:47Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Only on bittensor baaabby Chutes is apparently the #1 Open Source inference provider on OpenRouter* Not top [--]. Not top [--]. NUMBER ONE. 40+ BILLION tokens per day. And we literally just found out. Yesterday. *P.S Based on publicly available information on OpenRouter Only https://t.co/B0vVvfQRzo Chutes is apparently the #1 Open Source inference provider on OpenRouter* Not top [--]. Not top [--]. NUMBER ONE. 40+ BILLION tokens per day. And we literally just found out. Yesterday. *P.S Based on publicly available information on OpenRouter Only https://t.co/B0vVvfQRzo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1979280941383323890)  2025-10-17T20:18Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Yo anyone know who the good looking fella is in the intro Regardless Evert put an insane amount of work into this and it came out beautifully. Give it a watch The Incentive Layer - A bittensor documentary 🎥 Watch now on https://t.co/FSlGQN3uat Explore how a global network is reshaping the production of intelligence through open collaboration aligned incentives and permissionless innovation. Taking the lessons from bitcoin and https://t.co/RcIGu5x3ho The Incentive Layer - A bittensor documentary 🎥 Watch now on https://t.co/FSlGQN3uat Explore how a global network is reshaping the production"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1983619689428480107)  2025-10-29T19:39Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"Another great post by Micah. I agree with him that subnets in their current state are better framed as businesses than a decentralized commodity network https://t.co/uyLjpwIZ55 https://t.co/uyLjpwIZ55"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1984354123865628867)  2025-10-31T20:17Z 17K followers, 10.8K engagements


"Will's working on what I believe to be one if the biggest opportunities in AI: distributed model training IOTA (Subnet 9) is the only *live* distributed training network "If we project IOTA forward we will have a system that we could actually train a frontier model on that supplies compute for the worlds most valuable task at a fraction of the cost" https://t.co/dnqZFmabiV https://t.co/dnqZFmabiV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1986111032209657986)  2025-11-05T16:39Z 17.1K followers, 11.6K engagements


"@Defi0xJeff let me know if you need recs ;)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1986112031334789377)  2025-11-05T16:43Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"your favorite AI coin is serving orange slices at your son's middle school soccer game my AI coin is partnering with @ReadingFC Score x @ReadingFC Over the next year with @ReadingFC well build vision AI models that turn match footage into game changing insights for their coaches and players and systems that make stadium operations smarter and more efficient for elite sport organisations. https://t.co/KHQcY1sXIb Score x @ReadingFC Over the next year with @ReadingFC well build vision AI models that turn match footage into game changing insights for their coaches and players and systems that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1987926378860175861)  2025-11-10T16:52Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Prediction markets are hot right now so caught up with Leo from @sportstensor. Sportstensor is a great example of what Bittensor can do beyond AI using incentives to steer talent and liquidity to prediction markets on-demand. https://t.co/brWKfyZEDW https://t.co/brWKfyZEDW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1988293816449986732)  2025-11-11T17:12Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements


"My takeaway from yesterday is that the Bittensor pitch is still pretty complex and would benefit from being simplified. But it was extremely valuable to be able to experiment with different explanations with Thread. Regardless of how complex Bittensor is I still think its success is inevitable. And that's because even now with how complex it is you still have Subnets that have broken into the mainstream like Chutes selling to enterprises like Targon and being used by developers like Ridges. The ins and outs of Bittensor don't need to be clearly understood for one to comprehend what a Subnet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1988975446331924893)  2025-11-13T14:21Z 17.1K followers, 15.7K engagements


"time to run Grass back The Grass network has [---] million monthly active participants and its rapidly growing. Don't see why IOTA won't be able to amass the same amount of participants but with a stronger flywheel because miner token rewards will be streamed daily All it'll take is a macbook to contribute to a decentralized training run Today we are announcing the launch of Training at Home our effort to democratise the creation of AI models to allow the many to participate not just the few. Training at Home is an easy to use application that allows anyone with a Macbook to contribute to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1993425291444998255)  2025-11-25T21:03Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements


"step [--] - incentivize quants to provide probabilistic price prediction data step [--] - build HFT strategy using it step [--] - be up 2400% in a month hmmm interesting - monitoring It took us [--] weeks to 10X on @Polymarket [--] days to 20X. you do the math. 📅 Started: Oct [--] 💰 Initial Capital: $3K Powered by Synth forecasts. https://t.co/JFP6ra4fML https://t.co/MQ4j19Eqdl It took us [--] weeks to 10X on @Polymarket [--] days to 20X. you do the math. 📅 Started: Oct [--] 💰 Initial Capital: $3K Powered by Synth forecasts. https://t.co/JFP6ra4fML https://t.co/MQ4j19Eqdl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1993451357907698073)  2025-11-25T22:46Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"The Unsupervised team has spent [--] months building a report containing everything you need to actually understand Bittensor Were spoon-feeding yall at this point so if you dont get Bittensor (or crypto-ai) after reading it thats a skill issue Drops tomorrow whether or not you believe bittensor will "work" (tao go up) from an economics perspective after all these years let's not for get that it is still the only live adversarial permissionless conglomeration of open-source frontier ai labs in existence. if you took the time to whether or not you believe bittensor will "work" (tao go up) from an"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1998124572047269911)  2025-12-08T20:16Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Read the full report here https://www.unsupervised.capital/s/The-Investment-Case-for-Bittensor https://www.unsupervised.capital/s/The-Investment-Case-for-Bittensor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1998455690998788117)  2025-12-09T18:12Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements


"14/37 from this list are Bittensor Subnets Only [--] from the list have live tokens meaning 58% of the investable options today are on Bittensor crypto x ai projects to keep an eye on almanak talus gensyn fraction sentient theoriq gradient nous research prime intellect pluralis templar ridges chutes sportstensor synth numinous allora vanta trading score quantum compute bitmind 404-gen eigencloud flock giza nevermined crypto x ai projects to keep an eye on almanak talus gensyn fraction sentient theoriq gradient nous research prime intellect pluralis templar ridges chutes sportstensor synth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1998856652049809842)  2025-12-10T20:45Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Saying you dont believe in crypto-AI is saying you dont believe in Bitcoin Heres the proof of work That is all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1998858793355194741)  2025-12-10T20:54Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@bitsecai This is my quant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2001772883207688594)  2025-12-18T21:53Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@KyleSamani Never thought Id see the day where Kyles fighting Nic FUD on Bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2001777526864228734)  2025-12-18T22:12Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@pepeleplutus @const_reborn @here4impact Validators are just entities with alpha/tao stake. They're part of a PoS system. Why shouldn't those with skin in the game be able to stake and have a say in things like miner emissions on a subnet Is that not a part of a decentralized governance process"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2002991140765843622)  2025-12-22T06:34Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Had a great chat with the Messari lads to wrap up [----] and reflect on the state of crypto-AI and Bittensor 🚨 [----] Messari Theses Podcast (3/5) In this episode analyst @capradavis sits down with @Old_Samster and @bloomberg_seth of @UnsupervisedCap to unpack Crypto AI and explore how @opentensor (Bittensor) is turning AI development into an open incentive-driven competition https://t.co/u1S9WSGJQS 🚨 [----] Messari Theses Podcast (3/5) In this episode analyst @capradavis sits down with @Old_Samster and @bloomberg_seth of @UnsupervisedCap to unpack Crypto AI and explore how @opentensor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2003188088936563084)  2025-12-22T19:37Z 17.3K followers, 10.7K engagements


"There are already several subnets on Bittensor generating off-chain revenue. Some are doing 100% automatic buybacks some do random discretionary buybacks of a % of revenue and some arent doing any at all. A big topic of conversation on CT is whether buybacks are pointless or necessary. I agree with Jordi that the right answer is more nuanced but exposure to revenue is ultimately the reason an investor holds a token. To Subnet Owners - if funds are tight reinvest revenue into the team and growth. That should be the priority. But once youre generating consistent revenue and have some excess"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2007877641035202666)  2026-01-04T18:11Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@deLisserRobin Enough time has not passed. Subnets are startups. Finding PMF as a startup is difficult and takes time. Subnets (in their final form after dTAO upgrade) have only been live for [--] months. In no world should the majority be generating revenue at this point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2007887418951663728)  2026-01-04T18:50Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@karsenthil @kelxyz_ @tplr_ai @DistStateAndMe @Pluralis @AlexanderLong @PrimeIntellect from a @jackclarkSF recent blog https://jack-clark.net/2026/01/05/import-ai-439-ai-kernels-decentralized-training-and-universal-representations/ https://jack-clark.net/2026/01/05/import-ai-439-ai-kernels-decentralized-training-and-universal-representations/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2010843411075440772)  2026-01-12T22:36Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@ridges_ai ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2010862218662064289)  2026-01-12T23:51Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"- I dont really see how AI capex maps to most of DePIN (DeWi sensors etc) - If you write off DePIN entirely you're basically saying crypto isnt a coordination technology and that what Bitcoin proved cant be applied to other real-world systems which i'd argue is wrong. What you can say is that you don't see potential in any of today's DePIN projects and that there's another hotter narrative atm - Re: The perpetual motion framing - No one in DePIN is claiming they can create value from nothing. Every projects goal is to eventually route enough real demand into the system to offset the capital"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2010868163362124010)  2026-01-13T00:15Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The broader sentiment in the space that "blockchains are for finance" really blows my mind. I find it surprising that many in crypto who've been in the space for a while have lost sight of what Bitcoin actually showed us which is that blockchains can transcend finance. Bitcoin proved that open competition combined with aligned incentives is a superior form of organization and coordination when working on large scale problems. I agree that decentralization as the value prop does not work and skeuomorphic versions of existing products have struggled to find success. But open contribution and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2011490068590981229)  2026-01-14T17:26Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Most of yall we're complaining about how this space is not taken seriously and then support things like bags that are completely misaligned with any long term efforts - oh well the bags approach to have a free [--] figs waiting for the creator on sign off is an interesting way to bootstrap initial legitimacy but unfortunately doesnt create long term alignment or solve the larger credibility problem being involved w/ crypto introduces the bags approach to have a free [--] figs waiting for the creator on sign off is an interesting way to bootstrap initial legitimacy but unfortunately doesnt create"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2012149026645512263)  2026-01-16T13:04Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Bittensor has been a rabbit hole that keeps drawing me deeper. Over the past few months Ive spent quite a bit of time researching and engaging in conversations with subnet miners validators and owners. Given its complexity Bittensor is often misunderstood. So heres my attempt at summarizing what Bittensor is. -- Bittensor continuously rewards new better machine learning (ML) models across a variety of targeted use cases. While several decentralized projects at the crypto-AI intersection focus on decentralizing specific machine learning stack components such as training inference or data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1734977722424938993)  2023-12-13T16:44Z 17.3K followers, 228.9K engagements


"Helium's pattern of major reversals is concerning: From a single token (HNT) to subnetwork tokens (IOT/MOBILE) back to single token From directing all Nova Labs revenue to HNT suddenly stopping buybacks via tweet I get that trial and error is necessary when you're building frontier tech. But these changes have caused serious whiplash. How can institutional capital trust a token where 50% of its cash flows vanish overnight with "the market doesn't seem to care" as the rationale Convincing investors to buy tokens is already hard enough. When material changes happen via tweet with vibes-based"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2008554640464384255)  2026-01-06T15:01Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"One of our core beliefs at Unsupervised Capital is that Bittensor is the best environment to build crypto-AI companies. Ill be a judge for Opentensor's Subnet Ideathon and looking to back exceptional founders who actually understand why crypto + AI is a structural advantage. Were open to investing up to [----] TAO in one or more teams. So if youre building something interesting and want feedback before committing email us: contact@unsupervised.capital Introducing the judging panel for the Opentensor Foundation x Hackquest Bittensor Subnet Ideathon. Meet the experts evaluating your subnet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2013284722084819266)  2026-01-19T16:17Z 17.3K followers, 11.4K engagements


"The sheer amount of compute demand in the coming decade (from AI IoT & the metaverse) will outstrip the supply of computing resources offered by centralized cloud providers. Decentralized computing networks will be essential for unlocking new compute capacity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1602374992930304000)  2022-12-12T18:49Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"first massive raise from a bittensor company Manifold has raised a $10.5M Series A to accelerate the growth of @TargonCompute https://t.co/hR8H8vceYt Manifold has raised a $10.5M Series A to accelerate the growth of @TargonCompute https://t.co/hR8H8vceYt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1949873575277515196)  2025-07-28T16:44Z 17.3K followers, 10.3K engagements


"I'm bullish on the bittensor halving - podcast on this coming next week"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1974139358568739023)  2025-10-03T15:47Z 17.3K followers, 11.7K engagements


"An investment thesis for 2026: Problem - The scale of AI capex being deployed into chips will create massive depreciation problems. As new generations come online large portions of todays hardware will no longer be competitive and will need to be replaced. Thesis - Crypto compute markets expand and stabilize the demand side for non-frontier compute which will improve capex recovery for everyone upstream. We're going to see a liquid compute market emerge on crypto rails where hardware has the ability to plug in unplug and reallocate at any moment. Compute will flow to the protocols offering"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2005332455444865297)  2025-12-28T17:38Z 17.3K followers, 15.9K engagements


"This design doesn't make sense. A subnet owners primary job is to create persistent demand for the subnet token. In this design SN127 is explicitly used as exit liquidity which creates continuous sell pressure. There is a structural disincentive for me as an investor to hold this token. Even with a trading agent layered on later the tokens primary function is still to be sold https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2009353959002263674 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2009353959002263674"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2009353959002263674)  2026-01-08T19:58Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"This trend of people buying local servers dedicated to AI and productivity is bullish for decentralized compute networks - Buy a Mac mini - Run your favorite personal AI assistant (clawdbot etc.) - When theres downtime tell it to route the system's idle compute to whatever crypto-AI protocols are most profitable at the margin (IOTA - SN9 Actual - SN95) Over time this evolves into a larger liquid compute market where personal machines automatically plug in whenever theyre idle https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015807333176156648 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015807333176156648"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2015807333176156648)  2026-01-26T15:21Z 17.3K followers, 18.9K engagements


""I read Darios The Adolescence of Technology and its scary. It assumes the perspective of a top-down ruler that someone can and will get to control AI. This is taken as a given. Machines of Loving Grace assumes basically the same tone that there are some adults in the room and they will use AI like a tool to fix some supposed human problem where those problems are framed in a very narrow worldview say that like disease poverty and inequality are bad . They assume that the desired outcome is so obvious that its not worth discussing its only worth discussing how to achieve it. . The singularity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2016167544642560434)  2026-01-27T15:12Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@KyleSamani @multicoin you're the real DePIN daddy kyle congrats man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2019209981225300008)  2026-02-05T00:42Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Now think of all the subnet tokens that will exist after the dTAO upgrade and how underpriced they will be relative to comparable standalone deAI projects For example the cloud GPU subnet (SN 12) will be comped to Akash and Ionet This will makes for massive opportunities within the Bittensor ecosystem once dTAO is implemented And it will all create more demand for TAO since it's needed in order to acquire any subnet token I know tao is pumping but it's not even the #1 AI coin. Never forget how much crypto is priced on a relative basis people use market cap rankings as a compass. No chance TAO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1838073311663931612)  2024-09-23T04:30Z 17.3K followers, 50.2K engagements


"Super excited to take a hands-on role in helping Bittensor effectively allocate its emissions Getting this right will be critical for the network's success Looking forward to sharing our research and working alongside the community to advance the Bittensor ecosystem AI is the most important technology of our time and its decentralization is critical Bittensor has emerged as the category-defining leader within decentralized AI and we believe its position will only strengthen So we're launching Crucible Labs to help architect this future https://t.co/lrPoiuuDO2 AI is the most important"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1857511698485359027)  2024-11-15T19:51Z 17.3K followers, 21.6K engagements


"Sum of all subnet tokens right now is [---] TAO meaning the collective FDV of subnets is 3.9x as much as TAO's. Until last night most trading was concentrated in the top [--] subnetsnow many of the undervalued long-tail subnets are getting scooped up With the Coinbase listing tomorrow + fomo + low liquidity in pools I think things continue to get a bit sillier before a major flush"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1892264190133620837)  2025-02-19T17:25Z 17.3K followers, 32K engagements


"@markjeffrey We Bittensor-folks need to do better at not calling every AI project a tao-clone/conpetitor. Ambient is completely different like you pointed out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1957252327955452127)  2025-08-18T01:24Z 17.3K followers, 33.8K engagements


"My mission for the last two months was to distill my thinking on crypto-AI and Bittensor into one piece. I was tired of seeing the same virtuous and idealistic arguments about crypto-AI. Theyre well-intentioned but irrelevant. They dont drive adoption. Superior technology and better economics drive adoption. And crypto-AI provides that. My thesis boils down to one line: crypto-AI wins because it makes AI innovation faster and more efficient. I genuinely believe crypto-AI will become the default substrate for founders building AI startups and Bittensor is showing what that future looks like."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1998455689489134036)  2025-12-09T18:12Z 17.3K followers, 22.2K engagements


"Bittensor isnt anything like a football game. Were experimenting with a completely new field called incentive computing. Youre not going to get that right on the first try or the second or the third. If the expectation is that all the kinks should be worked out by now thats just not realistic. Im actually encouraged to see changes happening because its obvious improvements are still needed. Iteration is the only way something this novel gets built correctly. The idea that the network needs to steady right now to attract institutional capital isnt a priority for me. The priority is making the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2002995675177345502)  2025-12-22T06:52Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The narrative of using decentralized compute networks to alleviate the GPU shortage induced by AI has taken off in recent months. Heres an update on the AI x crypto landscape for machine learning model training and inference 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1668355979820535814)  2023-06-12T20:33Z 17.3K followers, 48.8K engagements


"2023 is unfolding as the renaissance year for Bitcoin. Here are the slides from my State of Bitcoin presentation from Messari Mainnet as well as some additional insight👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1706742315040358649)  2023-09-26T18:47Z 17.3K followers, 31K engagements


"Shoutout to the tao_com team on launching their iOS wallet They make extremely easy to acquire TAO using a coinbase account and then to use that TAO to buy Subnet tokens The Bittensor wallet for the masses has arrived. The https://t.co/HbVVmMsUEc iOS app is now available in the App Store 🚀 ✨ Stunning new design 😍 Effortless subnet discovery & trading 🔒 100% non-custodial 📱 Download or upgrade now: https://t.co/xRDZCSTbC6 $TAO The Bittensor wallet for the masses has arrived. The https://t.co/HbVVmMsUEc iOS app is now available in the App Store 🚀 ✨ Stunning new design 😍 Effortless subnet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1999539601187188821)  2025-12-12T17:59Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Primer: Bittensor is an ecosystem of specialized networks or subnets that are each focused on a specific machine learning use case or resource provision. These subnets offer a range of services including conversational AI platforms similar to ChatGPT prediction tools for financial markets as well as resources such as pre-trained and fine-tuned models synthetic data and data storage solutions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1754917605343953046)  2024-02-06T17:18Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Problem: The Root Network subnet [--] functions as Bittensors governing body where Root validators are responsible for voting on the allocation of emissions to the various subnets. However there are [--] main issues with it: [--]. Concentration of Influence Over Emissions The top [--] Root validators control over 60% of the token supply [--]. Scalability Issues The manual process of setting emissions for each subnet is not scalable w/ an increasing number of subnet https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1754917606786793853 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1754917606786793853"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1754917606786793853)  2024-02-06T17:18Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"To your last point agree that the current system limits miners from innovating and pushing the boundaries. There's been some discussions around creating a human feedback subnet that is integrated into the validation of other subnets as a solution. Subnet [--] has done something similar by looping humans into their validation mechanism to identify miners with better image outputs and reward them accordingly https://twitter.com/xponentcrisis/status/1757087703957389773 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1763706503431667825 https://twitter.com/xponentcrisis/status/1757087703957389773"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1763706503431667825)  2024-03-01T23:22Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Been spending some time trying to understand @communeaidotorg and have a few questions Some Background on Commune: (Please correct me if I got anything wrong) Commune AI has two types of environments: Modules and Subnets. Subnets use an autonomous validation system and Yuma Consensus to incentivize contributors and validate their work. No major differences here compared to Bittensor subnets Modules are self-contained software that take an input process it and then provide an output. They have no validation or consensus mechanism. Anything can be wrapped as a module such as an AI model data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1788665403494858944)  2024-05-09T20:20Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Incredible achievement from the OMEGA Labs team. Collected 69M rows of multi-modal data using Subnet [--] (123k downloads on HF) and used it to train a multimodal model on Subnet [--] that is competitive with larger open source models. Super thrilled to share that the first iteration of OMEGA multimodal models (image audio & video) from @omegalabsai Subnet [--] on Bittensor trained on data from Subnet [--] () outperforms Qwen-VL (7B) on image understanding benchmarks (RealWorldQA MMMU & MathVista) This is the https://t.co/FVTiSirCFX Super thrilled to share that the first iteration of OMEGA multimodal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1825663469670252545)  2024-08-19T22:37Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@richhomiecon This team runs subnet [--]. So improving the quality of their subnet benefits them. Also the subnet right now is the biggest buyer of this type of data but in the future they could sell it to other buyers not just the subnet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1838603842935755183)  2024-09-24T15:38Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"http://x.com/i/article/1957874021632004096 http://x.com/i/article/1957874021632004096"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/1957875297665290667)  2025-08-19T18:40Z 17.3K followers, 41.4K engagements


"RT @Victor_crypto_2: Subnet owners you need to read this For nearly a year Ive spent hours every week scrolling through thousands of su"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Old_Samster/status/2019067791412723788)  2026-02-04T15:17Z 17.3K followers, [--] engagements

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